Putting aside locale, and other important things universal code should have in the first 75% of the new version: What is your argument that it is silly? Have y

Putting aside locale, and other important things universal code should have in the first 75% of the new version: What is your argument that it is silly? Have you done a survey of usage, or researched its history. Don't be so quick to criticize code, especially from a huge, old, project (that might even be older than you).